Chapter 125: Princess Chuling
Yanbei's delegation arrived in the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty five days later, and the people were very curious about this, wondering what the princess sent by Yanbei looked like.
I just stretched my neck one by one, but I couldn't see it.
"Why is it so mysterious? You can't see it at all?" The people couldn't help but mutter.
The people nearby said, "That's a princess after all, where can you see it by looking at it, but isn't this princess here to marry? After that, I will stay in the capital, and there will be more opportunities to see it in the future."
"I'm just curious, I heard that this princess in Yanbei is very good-looking, and I don't know who such a good-looking princess will end up with."
"Anyway, it won't fall into your house, and it won't fall into mine."
"Hahahaha!"
In order to welcome the arrival of the mission, Chu Xuanjin specially arranged a banquet, which was regarded as a dust-washing banquet for the Yanbei mission.
On such an occasion, Shen Zhao, as King Jing, naturally had to attend, not to mention that Chu Xuanjin still had his own careful thoughts.
Shen Zhao and Sheng Qingyuan ate a little bit in the palace early to pad their stomachs before entering the palace.
There is nothing delicious about the food cooked in the palace, especially this kind of banquet, when it is served, the food is cold, and eating it will only hurt the stomach.
After the envoys of Yanbei finished the most basic greetings, the sound of musical instruments sounded, and a group of specially dressed women went to the hall one after another, and the women formed a circle, and when they squatted, the princess of Yanbei and Yan Chuling were exposed.
Yan Chuling was wearing a veil on his face, and the face under the veil was faintly visible.
Although I can see the specific appearance clearly, I can roughly see that this princess is a great beauty.
Yan Chuling's dance was very good, and even people who were not interested in these dances in Sheng Qingyuan watched it with relish.
However, Shen Zhao was not interested, and seeing Sheng Qingyuan look so fascinated, he couldn't help but ask her, "What's so beautiful about this?"
Sheng Qingyuan said with a smile: "This princess is good-looking, and her dancing is really good-looking."
"I don't think she's as good as you, as for dancing...... I'm not interested in any of that." Shen Zhao pursed his lips and said.
Listening to Shen Zhao's words, Sheng Qingyuan couldn't help laughing.
Shen Zhao gently held her hand and said to her, "If it's not good-looking, look at it less, so as not to hurt your eyes."
Sheng Qingyuan only smiled softly.
Soon, after the dance, Yan Chuling put the flower in his hand in front of Shen Zhao, smiled at him with a little shyness, and after saluting him again, he returned to the middle place.
Chu Xuanjin looked at this scene, and couldn't tell for a while whether he should be happy or irritable.
He really didn't expect the princess sent by Yanbei to be so good-looking.
And such a good-looking person, but Chu Chengchi is going to be cheaper?
The more I think about it, the more I feel that I am losing, such a beauty should be included in the palace and let him enjoy it.
"King Jing felt how did Princess Chuling dance?" Chu Xuanjin asked directly to Shen Zhao.
Shen Zhao replied lightly, "Brother Chen has never known how to appreciate these, so he won't comment on them."
Everyone listened to his words and was slightly surprised.
Since King Jing returned to Beijing, except for his marriage, he has no opinion on His Majesty's arrangements and accepts them very quickly.
At this time, His Majesty asked him like this, and the princess of Yanbei also gave him flowers, which was very obvious, but he didn't seem to understand the meaning of His Majesty and Princess Yanbei at all.
Yan Chuling said directly: "But I think that the more I haven't studied it, the more I look at a dance from the eyes of the most ordinary people, the feeling I get is the most natural and real."
Chu Xuanjin raised his lips and said, "Princess Chuling is right, King Jing, you can talk about it."
Shen Zhao said, "Then it will look good."
Everyone could clearly hear Shen Zhao's perfunctory words, and Chu Xuanjin said, "Anyway, let's talk more."
Shen Zhao said helplessly:
"Please forgive the imperial brother, the younger brother was hungry when he came, so he couldn't help but eat two more bites, so he didn't look carefully."
Chu Xuanjin: "............"
Yan Chuling didn't seem to care: "I didn't expect His Royal Highness King Jing to be a lover."
Shen Zhao took a sip of tea and didn't answer, but everyone's attitude towards him was already very clear.
Chu Xuanjin looked at Shen Zhao and said to him with a bit of a joke: "I see that the two of you are quite a good match, how about letting the two of you get married?"
Shen Zhao smiled lightly and said to Chu Xuanjin, "Brother Huang or Brother Mo is joking."
Chu Xuanjin asked, "Why do you think I'm joking?"
Shen Zhao looked at Chu Xuanjin with a shallow smile on his face, but his eyes were full of cold light, and he said unhurriedly: "The princess has a noble status, and I am only an idle prince now, how can I still wronged the princess to be the side concubine of the courtier's brother." c
Then, without waiting for Chu Xuanjin to speak, Shen Zhao continued: "And the princess understands me, supports me unconditionally and encourages me when my brother is in the most difficult time, after all these years, my brother just wants to spend the rest of his life with the princess in peace, and the rest, don't do what he thinks."
said something that expressed his reluctance to marry Yan Chuling, and also expressed the importance of Sheng Qingyuan to him.
Therefore, it is impossible to let Yan Chuling enter the Jingwang Mansion, and it is even more impossible to let Sheng Qingyuan give way and then let Yan Chuling take the throne.
One is still willing to support him when he is in the most difficult time, if this affection can be abandoned, then who else is willing to be convinced?
If your emperor wants to demote people to concubines when the princess obviously has nothing wrong, wouldn't it be too unkind.
But if you let the princess of a dignified country be a side concubine, and you want to salute a woman from the countryside every day, this is also unreasonable.
So, don't think about marriage!
Chu Xuanjin even felt that Shen Zhao's words had another meaning.
He Chu Chengchi said that his identity was just an idle prince, didn't he say that he was idle him?
Chu Xuanjin took a light breath: "King Jing's words are reasonable, I am just a casual joke, the princess is a noble status, the princess's husband, naturally you have to choose well, and you can't be sloppy."
Yan Chuling's complexion didn't change much, and it didn't seem to be much different from what he looked at the beginning, he still had a faint smile on his face, and respectfully saluted Chu Xuanjin: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
Returning to his position, Yan Chuling looked at Shen Zhao, then at Sheng Qingyuan, thoughtfully, and then lowered his eyes and did not continue to look at them.
"Although the food in the palace tastes very ordinary, you can try this, and it tastes good." Shen Zhao sandwiched a piece of pastry for Sheng Qingyuan and said.
Sheng Qingyuan tasted it, and his eyes lit up: "It's really good."
Watching the interaction between the two, everyone's brains kept spinning wildly.
Chu Xuanjin's eyebrows tightened.
Sheng Qingyuan is just a person from the countryside after all, how can he attract Shen Zhao so much?
Could it be that Shen Zhao really just thinks that the wife of the chaff should not be abandoned? Or do you want to create a good image? Or did you fancy Sheng Qingyuan's earning power?
At the end of the banquet, Shen Zhao personally took Sheng Qingyuan's hand and left together.
Yan Chuling stopped them behind them.
"His Royal Highness King Jing and Princess Jing, please wait a moment."
"What else is the matter with the princess?" Shen Zhao asked in a slightly cold voice.
Yan Chuling smiled and asked Shen Zhao and Sheng Qingyuan, "I just came to the capital of the Great Zhou, and I heard that there are many interesting and beautiful places in the capital of the Great Zhou, I don't know if I have this honor, can I invite the prince and the princess to accompany me for a good visit?"
Without waiting for Sheng Qingyuan to speak, Shen Zhao helped her refuse: "Princess, forgive me, the princess needs to explain the things she needs to be busy with on weekdays, I'm afraid she doesn't have time to accompany the princess."
Yan Chuling didn't care, and said with a shallow smile
"Since the princess is not available, what about the prince? Didn't the prince just say that you don't have anything to do on weekdays?"
Shen Zhao said seriously: "This king has a lot of things to be busy with, and the princess may know that this king has only returned to the capital not long ago, and after so many years, the capital has also undergone very big changes, and the king does not know many places, so if the princess wants to visit, this king can find someone familiar with the capital for the princess to take you." The king and the princess still have something to do, so they won't send the princess."
After speaking, Shen Zhao hugged Sheng Qingyuan and left the palace.
really didn't leave her any face.
"These two people are too much, how can they treat the princess like this?" Yan Chuling's personal maid Hongmei said angrily.
Looking at Hongmei's angry appearance, Yan Chuling's eyes quickly flashed a strange look, and his face was also full of anger, and he said, "Hmph, he dares to give me no face at all in front of such a person, I will definitely make him regret it!"
Hongmei immediately asked, "What does the princess want to do to him?" Slave and maid will do it for you."
Yan Chuling pretended to think seriously for a while before he said, "I haven't been able to think of it for a while now, when I think of it, I'll tell you again, anyway, I will never let them have a good time!"
"Yes!" Hongmei nodded very vigorously and said.
Hongmei helped Yan Chuling all the way to the gate of the palace, and helped her into the carriage.
Hongqin, another maid who followed all the way, was about to get into the carriage, but was blocked outside the carriage by Hongmei, and said to her, "The princess is tired from a day and needs a good rest, if you also get into the carriage, the place inside will be too crowded!"
Listening to Hongmei's words that she was obviously driving people, Hongqin silently lowered her head, didn't say anything, and sat quietly next to the coachman.
Hongmei gave her a smug look, and then stepped into the carriage.
Back at the post house, after Hongmei briefly served Yan Chuling to wash, she returned to her room to rest, and handed over the vigil to Hongqin.
Hongqin, who had been silent all day and didn't speak, slowly opened her mouth and asked Yan Chuling at this time, "Princess, do you really want to marry His Royal Highness King Jing?"
"Yes." Yan Chuling, who was already asleep, was very firm at this time, and he didn't see any sleepiness.
Hongqin couldn't help but say, "But princess, you also saw today that the relationship between His Royal Highness King Jing and Princess Jing seems to be very good."
Yan Chuling narrowed his eyes and said, "I know."
"But you still want to marry His Royal Highness King Jing?" Hongqin confirmed to her.
"Yes, I must marry him, and this time I came to Da Zhou to do this." Yan Chuling clenched his fists, his eyes were very firm.
Hongqin pursed her lips and said, "What the princess means, the slave and maid understand, the princess rests early, and the slave and maid will definitely help the princess achieve her wish."
Yan Chuling said to her, "Hongqin, thank you."
Hongqin said, "This is what a slave should do."